Hosted by Courtney Bennett
Notes by Jay Flan
Our cloud computing discussion became a demo of Google Docs, which is fine because whatever happens at an unconference is what was meant to happen.
What is cloud computing? What can it do?
Amazon hosts web sites in their cloud
You don't have to worry about downtime
Centralized software applications
Google Docs
Intellectual property issues-does Google or Microsoft etc own the content?
Terms of service
Privacy Issues
Privacy concerns with Gmail
Question
Courtney explains how Google Docs work
How the folders look
Share function
Can be published as a web page
Possible todownload files in different formats
Problems with Google Presentations
but its not reliable, it freezes often
Virtual software is great
Issues of stablity
Formatting nightmares from Google Docs
Especially downloading resumes into word
Google Docs setting scan be made collaborative
has the model of a wiki-if you make it public
using Google Docs with other Libraians to discuss union and budget issues
Revision histories helpful-can go back intime-restore-undo
Is still in beta
Administrative and security issues, access can be edited and limited afterwards
Downside of Google Docs- Need internet to use
Diference between applications and cloud computing
Google Wave coming next-real time collaboration w/chat
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